Qiu Xuan was kicked out by the Alec Mountain family.

This was not too surprising, after all, the last farce ended and her relationship with the family was very stiff, and it was already late at night when she arrived at the mansion.

Qiu Xuan is like a ghost knocking on the door of someone's house in the middle of the night, if it weren't for the confidence of the big lord family, I was afraid that it would make the chickens and dogs jump in the end.

But it's pretty much the same now.

Qiu Xuan sighed, and casually found a clean stone pier at the main entrance and sat down. Just now a lord knight opened the door for her, and as for the old butler of the Alecshan family, who was in charge of hospitality, it seems that he heard that he also died in this harsh winter.

In the end, she didn't even see the face of Alex Mountain, and the knight was kind enough to inform her at first, but when it came out, he performed a Sichuan opera on the spot, and instantly turned his face and drove her out.

Qiu Xuan wasn't in a hurry now, she didn't believe that the people of the Alec Mountain family could not go out for several days in a row. What's more, even if they really had enough surplus food to spend in it, it would never be possible to give up their underground business for her.

They always have to go out, no matter which Mount Alex is.

Almost in the early hours of the morning, Qiu Xuan felt a second of hunger and felt that she was starting to be hungry again.

She was really afraid of hunger now, especially after experiencing the powerlessness and despair of being cornered under the abyss of nothingness for three days. Immediately, Qiu Xuan stood up from the stone pier, and once again troubled Xiaolu to let her continue to squat at the door of Alec Mountain, and went to the morning market of Zhuoer Bazaar by herself.

There are not many ground merchants who get up early at this point, especially in the winter when everyone is difficult to protect themselves, and even fewer merchants who can trade food in their hands. Qiu Xuan walked around the morning market, and only came across a small merchant who still had a few liters of inferior wheat in his hand, but the other party opened his mouth and asked for a high price of 100 silver coins.

Qiu Xuan took the head to get him a hundred dollars, and reluctantly turned around and went to the market pier, which was the place where she bought wine before.

The price of liquor has also increased, from one cup of blood to two cups of blood for a bottle, although I know that price hikes are commonplace in this world, but if this situation continues, I am afraid that the ordinary people at the bottom of Drow City will soon become no different from Osier.

The unloaders at the wharf were rushing to work together in the morning market, and these city-dwellers, who had only been able to sell their labor, looked as if they had come to some kind of hungry ghetto.

All of them were walking skeletons with bare bodies and yellow muscles, which looked crumbling and carrying several boxes of containers almost a person high on the skeleton frame, and the visual contrast even made people suspect that even those workers would fall apart in the next second.

Obviously, the last time I saw these people in Drow City, even if they were still full of embarrassment, they would not be like this.

Qiu Xuan only glanced at it a few times, and she walked under the canopy where the wine was placed in the direction she remembered. The overseer in charge of management is still the same, except that he seems to have not woken up and has no energy, and is much better than the workers outside who are so thin that they are out of shape.

"Give me a bottle of wine."

"Where's your residence permit?" Unexpectedly, this time the overseer asked for the price without saying anything, but asked in a dumb voice.

Qiu Xuan did have a residence permit, and during the month she first came to work for the Jima family, she would issue a residence permit to all official personnel, which was also a kind of ID card for the citizens of Zhuoer City.

But at that time, this thing was just an ornament, and basically no one would be idle to check your residence permit when you were out and running. And three months ago, when Qiu Xuan lost the Gluttony Contest and was sent to Oselle, her residence permit was recovered and destroyed by the people on the beam.

The overseer sitting on the chair knew it as soon as he saw Qiu Xuan's expression, and immediately waved his hand at her impatiently, muttering: "Now that the new regulations have come down, the wine and food we have here are only provided to the citizens of Zhuoer City who have a residence permit, and you can't buy wine if you don't have it, so hurry up and go to find those black merchants." ”

It appears that his so-called "new regulations" were officially issued during the winter months, and should be to reasonably control the consumption and flow of food.

Qiu Xuan didn't dwell too much, she turned around and walked towards the exit of the dock, a gaze from behind her stared at her for a few seconds. Just as she was about to look back, her gaze disappeared again, and she could only see the tired workers still staggering back and forth with the crates, and one of the women seemed to pause for a second, and then walked forward again to the cheers of the overseers.

……

Qiu Xuan finally drank today's share of wine.

Once again, she also met an "old acquaintance". At this moment, she was drinking face to face with the merchant on the ground in front of her, who was not even as tall as she was sitting, and behind him was his subordinate, the young girl who was said to be Nadya, who had openly assassinated Jima.

The girl didn't know Qiu Xuan, so at this moment, she stood without saying a word as if she was the background board. Qiu Xuan has seen her, and in Jima's mansion, she has seen the scene of Penny, the chief maid next to Jimma, meeting her.

"I heard Penny say that you took a long vacation and wanted to do your own thing."

Lin Buge was the first to speak, and he cut straight to the point with one mouth. "But you haven't been seen anywhere in Drow City in the past three months, so I think you must have just returned from Osier."

"It's true that I was supposed to go to the Gluttony Contest, but I didn't expect to lose."

Lin Buge was an aboriginal businessman, and Qiu Xuan didn't need to go into too many details with him, so he only mentioned it briefly. "Don't listen to the nonsense of people outside, don't worry, I'm definitely on your side."

The diminutive merchant burst out laughing, his shoulders shaking and shaking.

"Well, Lord Beelzebub has been asking people to confirm it before, and now it seems that ...... He doesn't seem to have anything to worry about? ”

Limbug laughed enough, raised his hand to drink the wine in the cup, and suddenly said quietly: "Since you said that you are on the side of Lord Beelzebub, then you naturally know...... The plans of the betrayers, right? ”

Qiu Xuan pretended to be stupid: "What plan?" ”

Limbegg: "Those lunatics want to destroy the beams!" ”

Qiu Xuan: "Oh my God, it's terrible. ”

I don't know if it was because her tone was too pretentious or something else, but the diminutive merchant began to laugh again. This time, he smiled unabashedly for a long time before holding his face, but he said half-truthfully: "If you keep your loyalty, you don't have to tell me here, you can go directly to Lord Beelzebub or other lords." After all, I ...... It's just an ordinary, profit-seeking businessman who avoids disadvantages. ”

Of course, Qiu Xuan knew what role Lin Buge played in this world, and as everyone had reminded him at the beginning, his most loved thing was life and money. Everything else, whether it was the plans of the "rebel madman", the official forces of Beelzebub, or the dark tide of the big and small lords, as long as it did not harm his interests, he could even not interfere at all.

The situation is now clear, and the world will either end up with "breaking the scales" or will be corrupted and destroyed from within in a never-ending famine. As for the coming of the "new world" that people believe in, the devil knows what it is.

"But no matter what, you always want to please Beelzebub on the surface."

Qiu Xuan clasped her fingers, "As for me...... All I can say is that I will try to choose the so-called 'right' side. ”

"Then I wish you the right choice." Limbug shrugged at her and beckoned behind her, and the girl, named Nadya, turned around and opened a bottle of liquor that seemed to be of great value.

Qiu Xuan: "I don't drink anymore, I have to go." ”

Limbegg shook her head as if complaining that she was missing out on some rare treasure, "Young man, wine is not just a necessity for us to sustain life, it can also be a consumer product. ”

"Some people eat to live, some people to show off."

"This is the definition of 'luxury', if one day most people in the world can afford the price of fine wine, then fine wine itself has lost its value as a luxury."

Qiu Xuan's back paused for a few seconds, she turned to look at Lin Buge who was holding the wine glass, and smiled at the corners of her mouth.

"Well, I wish you the right choice."

"Xuan'er, I think there's an old man coming out, and I don't know who he is, do you want to come back and have a look?"

Xiaolu's voice suddenly appeared in the necklace space, and Qiu Xuan said goodbye to Lin Buge and returned to Alec's house the same way.

She ran all the way back, and as soon as she stepped into the mansion, she saw a figure at the door. The man had gray hair, and although he was rickety, he looked quite energetic, but he couldn't tell if it was a direct descendant of the Alecshan family.

The next second, she heard the knight standing guard shouting, "Patriarch." ”

Ooh.

Qiu Xuan didn't rush up to stop people at the first time, but he was still worried that those familiar bodyguards would blow him away directly. The rumored head of the Alecshan family didn't have much of a card battle when he went out, and only a middle-aged man was followed by him, who looked like a subordinate.

She followed the two of them all the way towards the northwest of Zhuoer City, and when she came to a cold path where there was no one behind, Qiu Xuan coughed behind her back, and looked at the middle-aged man who was following the head of the family and instantly turned his head as if he were facing a great enemy.

"Who are you?"

"I have something I want to talk to Mr. Alexandre."

Saying that, Qiu Xuan didn't give the middle-aged man time to question, and directly took out the bone whip of Xi Han Pavilion from the space, and then watched the head of the family change his face in an instant.

"That's right, as you can see, this bone whip in my hand is a 'defective' ......"

On this seemingly faceless path, Qiu Xuan faced the current head of the Alec Mountain, and told those old stories.

It took her quite some time to explain what kind of special existence the defective product was, and even for a long time after she finished the whole paragraph, the two of them seemed to be still, and the picture fell silent for a long time.

Qiu Xuan waited from night to now, naturally he didn't mind waiting for them to react any longer. I don't know how much time has passed, and the old man after the middle-aged man finally spoke in a dumb voice: "Can you let me see this ...... 'defective product'?" ”

"Yes." Qiu Xuan walked directly to him and handed over the bone whip, but the hand holding it on one end did not let go. "But the owner of this whip is not me, after all, it is someone else's, and I have to be responsible for keeping it properly, so you forgive me."

The head of the family didn't care about this, his old palm touched the texture of the bone whip little by little, and he looked a little trembling for a while.

After a long time, the old man said: "You are right, this is indeed a defective product...... It's what we call a 'defective product'......"

He sighed faintly, for he was so old that the sigh sounded like a strange scream.

He said: "My lifelong desire is to hear the will of God with my own ears. ”

"So you said yes." Qiuxuan interface.

The middle-aged man who had been following him suddenly knelt down, and unexpectedly, he did not hold the head of the family's thigh and cry bitterly and say something like "the head of the house can't", but silently, two lines of tears flowed from his slightly cloudy eyes.

"I'm so happy for you," he said. ”

Qiu Xuan was a little stunned for a while, she looked at the two people who almost easily decided their future fate on this sheep intestine path, and she couldn't say a word for a while.

The whole process went much smoother than she expected, and even incredibly easy.

It was the first time she had seen the head of the Alecshan family in this world, and this old man, who had not even seen his name, had made her as impressed as those who were important lords.

The head of the house let her stay in Alecshan's house temporarily, which was indeed much more convenient, and they did not prohibit her from traveling freely. So Qiu Xuan agreed, and swaggered into the mansion through the main entrance that day, and the eyes of the mansion knights who were changing the guard were about to pop out.

There are still three days left before the winter solstice, and the head of the family has countless important things to do every day, so he put down all the family business in his hand and began to handle the aftermath of his death and all the business behind his back.

In fact, the price to be paid for listening to God is not necessarily death, but whether it is the head of the family or the only old attendant around him who knows about it, they seem to have acquiesced and gladly accepted their upcoming end.

As the middle-aged man once said - "I'm so happy for you." ”

Qiu Xuan wondered for a moment whether she had harmed this old man who was over half a hundred years old, but every time she remembered the look on the old attendant's face when she said this, she was somewhat relieved.

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